The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

China has achieved a significant milestone in the development of its Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), also known as ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The launch window for a small satellite developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opened this week at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...